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Posted on: August 10, 2016 | By Mike BoothOne of the Seven Wonders of the World is under attack—and it’s not from extremists or urban rezoning or too many tourists. No, India’s Taj Mahal is being attacked by the tiniest of assailants: air pollution. The monument, once called the White Marvel, is now dingy yellow and brown, thanks to incessant automobile and factory […]
Posted on: August 3, 2016 | By Mike BoothThe creation of the atomic bomb was at least good for something. In the 1940s, when the super-secret push to build the world’s first atom bomb began in earnest, Manhattan Project engineers needed a way to capture radioactive particles suspended in the air during experiments. They devised a filter composed of a series of arranged […]
Posted on: July 27, 2016 | By Mike BoothFirst little birds. Now, little kids. Regular readers of this blog—and who isn’t? —will remember an item about an experiment in the UK involving pigeons outfitted with portable pollution counters, in order to get a better read on the various pollution levels in London. The thinking: by strapping a device to something incredibly mobile, researchers […]
Posted on: July 20, 2016 | By Liz SchwartzSo there is hope on the horizon. Researchers from IBM and the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology in Singapore have found a macromolecule that can be used to fight all sorts of viruses. Originally, the researchers were working on finding out what made various viruses tick, and discovered commonalities among them. That led to the […]
Posted on: July 13, 2016 | By Mike BoothIt sounds like the plot of a wacky TV sitcom: man dreams up a goofy novelty product, man sells said goofy novelty product, said goofy novelty product becomes a must-have, man becomes a real businessman and struggles to keep up with the demands of becoming a real business. Sounds far-fetched, but it actually happened to […]
